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Everlasting African Wildfires Fueled by Aerosol Feedback

Fires have been burning in Africa for centuries. The fires are fueled by feedback loop as aerosols interact with the climate. It’s a process that plays a critical role in the regulation of African ecosystems. Adobe iStock photo

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672662

Jan 03, 2024

Wildfires in Africa are fueled by a feedback loop mechanism as aerosols interact with the climate

Machine Learning Could be Key to Early Leakage Detection in Underground Carbon Storage Sites

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672627

Dec 20, 2023

The feasibility study by Georgia Tech researchers explores using conditional normalizing flows (CNFs) to convert seismic data points into usable information and observable images. This potential ability could make monitoring underground storage sites more

Poor and Disadvantaged People Sit in the Dark Longer After a Storm Outage

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Extreme weather events impact disadvantaged communities more harshly, and extended power outages can be dangerous and life-threatening.

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672579

Dec 14, 2023

The research shows that people in lower socioeconomic tiers wait nearly three hours longer on average for their power to be restored.

Georgia Tech to Help Develop State’s First Climate Action Plan

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Georgia Tech researchers will help the state develop its first climate action plan.

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672463

Nov 28, 2023

The emissions tracker created by a Georgia Tech-led team will play an important role in the work, researchers say.

Study Reveals Wintertime Formation of Large Pollution Particles in China’s Skies

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Beijing pollution (Photo Kevin Dooley, Creative Commons)

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672402

Nov 16, 2023

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences researchers find dangerous sulfates are formed, and their particles get bigger, within the plumes of pollution belching from coal-fired power plants.

Digging Into Greenland Ice: Unraveling Mysteries in Earth's Harshest Environments

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The team snowmobiling to a remote field site.

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672274

Nov 09, 2023

Rachel Moore spent nearly 50 days in one of the most remote places on Earth, collecting ice cores; the research has implications for climate change predictions and searching for signs of life on icy worlds.

Janelle Dunlap Turns Beekeeping Into Art

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672208

Oct 30, 2023

The Urban Honey Bee Project’s new beekeeper in residence is creating art and educating the public with her practice.

Jim Sowell Talks About Watching Annular Eclipse

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656052

Oct 12, 2023

Jim Sowell talks about Georgia Tech's observatory, what can be learned from an eclipse, and why you should watch for it wherever you are.

Machine Learning Key to Proposed App that Could Help Flood-prone Communities

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671984

Oct 09, 2023

A School of Computational Science and Engineering faculty member is co-leading a $1.5M National Science Foundation grant to mitigate flood risks.

Long-Term Lizard Study Challenges the Rules of Evolutionary Biology

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671990

Oct 09, 2023

By lassoing lizards, putting tiny chips on their legs, and tracking them for three years, Georgia Tech’s James Stroud revealed why species often appear unchanged for millions of years despite Charles Darwin’s theory of constant evolution.

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